I wanted to enable basic roundrobin NIC teaming on my HP MicroServer Gen8. This configuration allows load balancing and fault tolerance. When transferring data to the server it will only be received via 1 NIC meaning a 1Gbps limit per connection, but 2 connections can transfer at 1Gbps each. When receiving data it will load balance over both NICs meaning you can achieve up to 2Gbps on a single connection. A future article will describe how to enable 802.3ad LACP aggregation which will provide 2Gbps data transfers both ways. This post will also work on RHEL 7.

NB: While making these changes you will need to be logged into the server from either the console or ILO as the network connection WILL go down.